nrfutil on OSX

[Chris]

Hi all,

I'm on 10.11.1 (El Capitan), followed the instructions here

github.com/.../pc-nrfutil

And it looks like installed was happy but when I try and run nrfutil it crashes immediately

nrfutil --help Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread Abort trap: 6 Chriss-MacBook-Pro:pc-nrfutil-master christopher$

Anyone successfully installed this lately?

Bit more info

Chriss-MacBook-Pro:Downloads christopher$ sudo -H pip install nrfutil
Collecting nrfutil
  Downloading nrfutil-1.3.0.zip (89kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 92kB 1.1MB/s 
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pyserial>=2.7 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyserial-3.1.1-py2.7.egg (from nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): enum34>=1.0.4 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/enum34-1.1.6-py2.7.egg (from nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): click in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click-6.6-py2.7.egg (from nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): ecdsa>=0.13 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ecdsa-0.13-py2.7.egg (from nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): behave in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/behave-1.2.5-py2.7.egg (from nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): protobuf in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/protobuf-3.0.0b4-py2.7.egg (from nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pc_ble_driver_py>=0.5.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pc_ble_driver_py-0.5.0-py2.7.egg (from nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): parse>=1.6.3 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/parse-1.6.6-py2.7.egg (from behave->nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): parse_type>=0.3.4 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/parse_type-0.3.4-py2.7.egg (from behave->nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): six in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from behave->nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from protobuf->nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): wrapt in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wrapt-1.10.8-py2.7-macosx-10.10-x86_64.egg (from pc_ble_driver_py>=0.5.0->nrfutil)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): future in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/future-0.15.2-py2.7.egg (from pc_ble_driver_py>=0.5.0->nrfutil)
Building wheels for collected packages: nrfutil
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for nrfutil ... done
  Stored in directory: /var/root/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/8f/7e/75/60b89ebdf8ad43a43d653e910558023262d33aba163c4b2b3c
Successfully built nrfutil
Installing collected packages: nrfutil
Successfully installed nrfutil-1.3.0
Chriss-MacBook-Pro:Downloads christopher$ nrfutil
Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread
Abort trap: 6

[Øyvind Karlsen]

Hi,

I tried this just now on a 10.11.4 OS X Mactop using Python 2.7.10.

On my Mac I had to install pip as it was not installed, the pipinstaller also installs setup tools for me. I followed the instructions on this link.

Then I installed nrfutil by using pip install nrfutil.

I had to sudo when installing pip and also when installing nrfutil, probably because of a local setting.

As a side note, I've found that whenever you are able to install anything using pip it will make your life infinitely easier. Simply put pip fixes the problems that I usually make for myself when installing tools, wrong paths etc.

Best regards,

Øyvind

[Øyvind Karlsen]

Oh, make sure that you are running python 2.7, to find out which version you are running type python -V in the terminal

[Chris]

Yep, I had tested and made sure I was on 2.7.9 ..

I also made sure I installed pip

I'll run through the rest..

[Chris]

Nope, re-ran and still no success.. I can upgrade my OSX but don't think thats it..

[Øyvind Karlsen]

Seems that we're using different python versions, it's just a shot in the dark, but perhaps updating Python will do it?

[Chris]

Yeah, I get the feeling thats the version thats installed with the OS but it should be modern enough..

I have

Chriss-MacBook-Pro:Downloads christopher$ pip -V pip 8.1.2 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)